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Sunday, December 8 at 4 pm
Hoboken Historical Museum
1301 Hudson Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Roots Revisited: Celebrating Janine Pommy Vega on Sunday, December 8 at 4pm!
This live public event will feature four notable Hudson County poets celebrating legendary poet Janine Pommy Vega who grew up in Union City, NJ. Janine graduated high school as class valedictorian at the age of 16. She moved to New York City and lived with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. She went on to develop a strong feminist voice in the Beat movement.
Over the next 5 decades, Janine traveled the world and published 18 books of poetry including Poems to Fernando (City Lights), Mad Dogs of Trieste (Black Sparrow), The Green Piano (Black Sparrow), and the memoir Tracking the Serpent (City Lights), which chronicles her travels across several continents.
Janine was active in promoting poetry in New York State correctional facilities, through Bard College’s Bard Prison Initiative and as Director of Incisions/Arts. She taught poetry in public schools and migrant centers. She spent the last decades of her life in Willow NY (next to Woodstock) with fellow poet Andy Clausen. She passed away in 2010. This event will be hosted by our Poet in Residence Danny Shot, who was a friend of Janine’s.
The four poets who will be paying tribute to her legacy include: Eliot Katz, Millicent Ansah, Yetvart (Ed) S. Majian, and Vera Sirota.
This event is free and will be livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook.
Please join us to celebrate this important Hudson County poet and feminist trailblazer!
Sunday, December 8 at 2:30pm
The West of Willow collective will host a benefit concert for The Hoboken Shelter, Dec. 8 at 2:30 p.m. at Hoboken’s 503 Social Club. The lineup will include the formidable rocker Karyn Kuhl and her band, Karyn Kuhl & the Gang, along with Debby Schwartz (of The Aquanettas and Psych-O-Positive) and poets Danny Shot and Vera Sirota.
KEEP THE LIGHT: Celebrate the Power of Words and Music that Propel us thru the Night
into the Light! TUESDAY DECEMBER 10 at 6 pm
featuring: Austin Alexis, Jennifer Blowdryer, Kim Brandon, Daniel Carter (multi-instrumentalist), Matthew Hupert, Yuko Otomo, Eve Packer, Danny Shot, Steve Wishnia (guitar), host: Eve Packer
photo by Matthew Hupert
w/huge thanks to librarian Emil Allakhverdov
Hudson Park Library
66 Leroy Street, off 7th Ave. S., ny ny 10014
212-243-6876